I've been trying to sort out a Lombard for my father in law and I have
a 6x DVD drive that seems to work OK once you get the drive closed.
The drawer binds as I try and close it, sometimes I have to open it and
clse it several times before I can get it to close all the way.
Once it's closed it
I know I could buy her a new DVD drive for the Pismo, either s/hand
via eBay or even (at considerable expense...) new. But this is an old
machine, and I'm not sure I want to spend too much money keeping it
fettled. The other possibility that's occurred to me is to buy an
external firewire
Michelle Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a Pismo DVD drive that's bare...that is, the
outermost part is the metal casing, there's no black
plastic surrounding caddy. Any ideas where I could
get the caddy part, so I can use the drive? Or is the
only solution to buy a whole new drive?
You
Another Pismo part question:
I have a Pismo DVD drive that's bare...that is, the
outermost part is the metal casing, there's no black
plastic surrounding caddy. Any ideas where I could
get the caddy part, so I can use the drive? Or is the
only solution to buy a whole new drive?
Michelle
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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 18:40:27 -0400
From: Pete Gregory
Subject: Re: Pismo DVD drive not recognizing CD's
Subject: Re: Pismo DVD drive not recognizing CD's
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 23:47:58 -0500
From: James Rohde
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[snip]
Pete, you possibly have
Subject: Re: Pismo DVD drive not recognizing CD's
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 23:47:58 -0500
From: James Rohde [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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[snip]
Pete, you possibly have the dreaded 'LG dying' problem (which I had
shortly before my original warranty ran out). The LG model of drive
Any bright ideas as what the problem is and how to fix it?
My 3 year old pismo (OS 9.22, 382 Mb Ram, stock 20Mb HD) has stopped
recognising CD's. I put a CD or CD-R in the drive, close the unit, the
drive spins up, spins down about a second later and that's it. Checking
in sys profiler shows
Try http://mywebpages.comcast.net/gionpeters//pb1400.htm
Towards the bottom of the page he suggests how to fix a 1400's CD drive.
Might work for you too...
Wiebe.
On 14/7/03 11:36 PM, Pete Gregory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any bright ideas as what the problem is and how to fix it?
My 3
You'll probably be told this by a hundred other people on this list but the
answer is those dreaded letters LG. These Lucky Goldstar drives fail all
the time. I got through three of them until someone said try and the
Matsushita brand. So far, mine has been fine. I'm sure you'll find that's
the
I had this exact same problem and figuring that the mechanism was blown,
bought a new mechanism for it from Wegener Media. They mentioned this happens a
lot with the DRN8080B mechanism, and they've found a new revision of the drive
which is less problematic. As it's working perfectly now
On 07/14/2003, Pete Gregory apparently wrote:
Any bright ideas as what the problem is and how to fix it?
My 3 year old pismo (OS 9.22, 382 Mb Ram, stock 20Mb HD) has stopped
recognising CD's. I put a CD or CD-R in the drive, close the unit, the
drive spins up, spins down about a second later
This is what I have for swapping drives:
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/PB_G3/oem_combo_drives/build_guide/build_combo_dr
ive.html
LOL, That's it! thanks for doing my homework Tom! =)
I would like to keep this thread very active as lots of people have Pismo
(firwire 2000) laptops. If apple is
Ryan,
Just curious...what are the so many problems that you have with your Pismo?
Mike Kochkodin
Oh let me count the ways:
(Day.month.year)
Computer purchased on 12.1.2001
27.4.2001 Battery will not hold charge. Replaced
5.11.2001 LG-8080B (DVD) stopped mounting DVDs, CDs shortly after.
on 2/25/03 1:41 PM, Ryan Stewart at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I love my Pismo, I just wish it didn't have so many
problems.
In my case, this is my only problem! I haven't had the bad screen--yet, but
my drive went bad just weeks out of warranty, and just when I didn't have
the money to either
on 2/25/03 9:24 PM, Ryan Stewart at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oh let me count the ways:
Ouch! Boy did you get a lemon! I have never seen such a list of problems for
any Pismo or any other computer for that matter! :-) (with the possible
exception of 5300s???) I would have given up long before.
: One of my friends got Apple to replace his LG drive under Apple Care
and
: they send another LG drive as the replacement, so they must not feel
it is a
: problem with the brand of drive.
Sigh, my dvd drive had to be replaced and under AppleCare, they sent me
another LG :(
So far so
On 02/24/2003, Ryan Stewart wrote:
I have also heard success at using a PC DVD/CD-R in the old casing of the
failed drive. I could find the web info (http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/) if
anyone wants it.
Ryan, please check and post the link. As an owner of a 2nd LG Pismo drive
(now out of warranty),
Hi all
If the prismo use's the same drive's as the lombard,
look for smartdisk drives in firewire caseing's they are cheap on ebay
at the moment, and most of them are Teac branded drives inside.
These make very good swap in/out drives in the old caseing's as the
connector cards have the same
This is what I have for swapping drives:
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/PB_G3/oem_combo_drives/build_guide/build_combo_dr
ive.html
Tom
Ryan, please check and post the link. As an owner of a 2nd LG Pismo drive
(now out of warranty), I'd like to have the info.
Jim Rohde
--
G-Books is
Hi all,
I have the following Pismo: PBG3 400MHz, 12GB HDD, OS9.2.2 10.2.3
I have encountered the problem that not all DVDs are able to be loaded
(mounted).
When I insert a movie DVD, the MacOS normally recognises it and then loads
the DVD Player application.
However, some DVDs are not able to be
On Sunday, February 23, 2003, at 07:59 PM, Eugene Lee wrote:
On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 10:05:59AM -0600, Thomas Ethen wrote:
:
: One of my friends got Apple to replace his LG drive under Apple Care
and
: they send another LG drive as the replacement, so they must not feel
it is a
:
on 7/16/02 6:19 PM, Michael Bryan Bell at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Unfortunately Jon you're kind of screwed- DVD's in OSX are a dream, but in
OS9 they leave a lot to be desired. I honestly (and I tried, believe me)
could never really get it to work using 9.0 and below (gave up and used my
on 7/16/02 7:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The majority of the dead drives are the LG (DRN8080B), which are pretty
worthless units, in general..
What's the number for the Matsushita drive?
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Krakow, Poland
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What you are describing, has been explained to me as a natural process of
DVDs. It was explained to me like this. DVDs can have multiple layers. At
some point, the laser has to switch layers. It is at this point that the
pause occurs. The fact that it's at the same place every time suggests
, could it be that the corpses are the result of attempts
to defeat the DVD region system? Several hacks are out there
F.
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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 11:19:15 EDT
Subject: Re: Pismo DVD drive problem
Having
Furthermore, could it be that the corpses are the result of attempts
to defeat the DVD region system? Several hacks are out there
Doubtful- I've cracked just about every drive I've owned due to my gf being
from australia.
It's really pretty harmless if you get your update from a reliable
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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 11:19:15 EDT
Subject: Re: Pismo DVD drive problem
Having accumulated several dozen of these dead drives, I can vouch that it
is
NEITHER a connector problem nor a motherboard, software, or PRAM problem.
The
drive is the problem--they die
On 7/16/02 12:39 PM Frank Cornew edified us all by writing:
Given that a few different drive mechanisms were available in these
modules, do you know if the several dozen dead drives (sddd) are of
the same model? Apple system profiler should cough up the pertinent
info under the devices and
Having accumulated several dozen of these dead drives, I can vouch that it is
NEITHER a connector problem nor a motherboard, software, or PRAM problem. The
drive is the problem--they die, and they die regularly.
We've begun replacing these for the unlucky who are no longer covered by
Apple,
Hi-
I'm new to the list. I discovered it while online, looking for info
regarding my newly-dead DVD drive. I hope I'm not asking a FAQ, but I
couldn't find one that would answer this sort of question.
My DVD drive started giving me problems back in January (about two weeks
after the warranty
My DVD drive started giving me problems back in January (about two weeks
after the warranty ran out). It would give me problems reading disks,
usually either freezing the computer or simply not mounting it. It seemed to
be fixed by changing back to 9.1 for a while, but still reared its ugly head
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